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You may have asked yourself:
“Who created records?”
“Why were they created?”
“What do they contain?”
From birth to death, your ancestors created a paper trail of events and happenings.
In this episode, Jesse and Tom will show you the many different kinds of records you can search for and where those records are kept.
You will learn how to recognize and locate important information in records, what kind of information is contained in different kinds of records, and where to search for specific types of records.

Did you know that FindMyPast and FamilySearch have been working together on major genealogical records collections in order to more quickly build significant databases including links to images of original records? Learn about these joint-projects and much more, to enhance your abilities to navigate and quickly find and prove ancestral connections in the British Isles, Ireland, USA and Australia.

This is a series of 3 classes:
Using the Danish Demographical Database (37 minutes) - Objective: To learn how to access the indexed census information on the website.
Finding Censuses on Arkivalieronline (28 minutes) - Objective: To learn how to access the digitized census records.
Extracting Genealogical Information (38 minutes) - Objective: To learn how to read the basic genealogical information found in census records. You can use the lobby button in the left hand bar to skip between the different classes.

This class covers the census records for England and Wales, 1841 through 1911. The class discusses what information is available in these census records, as well as hints and suggestions for census research.